The Archive Of Alternate Endings

"Halley’s comet passes Earth once every 75 years or so, and its appearance serves as the organizing principle in this gorgeously written and haunting novel that spans several centuries of sightings. With characters like Johannes Gutenberg, the Brothers Grimm and Edmond Halley himself making occasional appearances, this circuitous, atmospheric book is all about the telling of tales, the passing-on of knowledge, stories’ shifting and mutating nature and how they can disappear into the black hole of unrecorded history, if allowed to. Both tragic and hopeful, it speaks to how human storytelling really is. Read it, read it, read it."